Disrespectful and sad

In Monday's front page story in The Star Press about our city, associate professor of landscape architecture, German Cruz, most disrespectfully and sadly labeled and addressed building contractors as "any monkey can do construction." These poorly selected, harmful words fly in the face at multiple current efforts by both town and gown to optimize the potential contributions of each other and grow our overall community in a positive direction.

Mr. Cruz's distasteful categorization of our very good collection of contractors in this area representing all disciplines of the construction industry just illustrates how little he really understands their role from his elite ivory academic tower about their important and high quality contribution in helping all of us reach for our dreams of an improved physical environment.

As professor emeritus from the same College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State, I very am ashamed of and saddened by his immature actions.

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Disrespectful and sad

J. ROBERT TAYLOR Professor emeritus of architecture In Monday's front page story in The Star Press about our city, associate professor of landscape architecture, German Cruz, most disrespectfully and